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Coming Soon: the Next Great Flu Fpidemic The virus first came to officials’ attention in a bag of dead chickens. Early in March
Coming Soon: the Next Great Flu Fpidemic The virus first came to officials’ attention in a bag of dead chickens. Early in March
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2013-08-12
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Coming Soon: the Next Great Flu Fpidemic
The virus first came to officials’ attention in a bag of dead chickens. Early in March 1997, a farmer from Hong Kong’s New Territories carried them into the Agriculture and Fisheries Department laboratory. The final state of some birds was a hideous, bloody mush. Cultures of their organs revealed they had died of avian influenza, type H5N1. Influenza of the H5 subtype had never been known to infect humans. But in the next seven months, 18 Hong Kong residents fell ill with H5N1 and six died.
In late December 1997, public health officials took a
drastic
step, ordering the slaughter of every chicken in every farm and marketplace in Hong Kong. The H5N1 virus seemed to disappear-but for how long?
The specter of the 1918 flu was raised by this new avian flu. The 1918 flu was one of the most changeable and resistant viruses known to man. After we’ve been infected with one strain, it can mutate and infect us again. We are only immune to flu strains our bodies have seen before.
A flu can also "jump species" to an animal it has never infected before, once such a flu moves into humans, if it can "learn" to pass easily between them, it can
spark
a pandemic -a global outbreak.
Birds carry the flu virus in their intestines and excrete it in their feces. In all likelihood, shoppers who got sick with H5 touched surfaces
contaminated
with chicken feces. Humans, however, carry flu in their respiratory tracts and usually spread them in a cough or sneeze. Flu strains that travel
this
way are highly contagious.
The H5 virus in Hong Kong was different. It sickened very few, but killed a third of those infected. Most who got sick with H5 seemed to catch it directly from a bird they bought in a live-poultry market.
After the Hong Kong outbreak, flu experts feared that H5--already deadly to humans—might learn to move between humans as well as between birds. That "raises the specter of 1918", says Nancy Cox, chief of the Influenza Branch of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDCP).
Geographic isolation was no protection during the 1918 pandemic. In the Alaska Territory, the mortality rate in some villages was as high as 90 percent. All told, at least 500 000 Americans perished. It could happen again.
The virus that became the Spanish flu probably came from a bird. Avian-flu expert Dr. Robert Webster of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. , believes the virus may have leapt straight from birds to humans, possibly a year to two before the pandemic began. Once lodged in human lungs, it quickly passed from person to person in a simple cough or sneeze. To avoid that grim possibility, here are three measures all nations need to take:
The first step is better surveillance. Most countries, though, don’t start tracking avian flu until after an epidemic kills their chickens. The United States dramatically increased its monitoring after a deadly outbreak in Pennsylvania in the early 1980s. The USDA(United States Department of Agriculture)provides diagnostic support. Some virologists recommend enhancing surveillance of swine flu too. The U. S. National Institutes of Health is beginning to study the issue.
Elsewhere, the coverage is not good enough, says Dr. W. Paul Glezen of the Baylor College of Medicine’s Influenza Research Center. He names Africa and South America as areas where the World Health Organizations net is incomplete.
Another important measure is producing more vaccines and flu shots. Only three of the 15 known influenza subtypes—H1, H2 and H3—have been found in people. Vaccines exist for each, and an H5 vaccine is now being developed. Some experts believe that we should develop a vaccine for the other known subtypes as well.
Health authorities add that more people need flu shots now. We should manufacture 120 million doses a year, but we are making only 80 million. If we bought more vaccines, manufacturers could produce more. This increased production capacity would be invaluable in a pandemic.
A strong pandemic plan.
The U. S. government has been developing a pandemic plan since 1997. The Hong Kong outbreak, notes CDCP investigator Keiji Fukuda, was a "dry run" for a real emergency. "It showed us we can get people there and answer some tough questions," but "H5 also taught us that lots of issues are hard to grapple with because they come so fast".
In March of this year, Hong Kong’s Agriculture and Fisheries Department announced it had found H5N1 in the goose excrement of a poultry stall.(A)
The virus was not identical to the 1997 version, and the next day it was gone.(B)
However, the two viruses were related.(C)
A month later, in April, the Hong Kong Department of Health announced that two girls, ages one and four, were recovering from an H9 flu virus found in poultry.(D)
H9 has never before been known to infect humans.
Many countries or areas prepare little for a flu pandemic EXCEPT______.
选项
A、the United States
B、Africa
C、South America
D、European countries
答案
A
解析
本题为正误判断题,考查考生根据文章所提供的信息,判断什么信息是正确的,什么信息是错误的或是文章中没有提到的。题目问:许多国家对流感病毒流行的问题无应对准备,只有哪一个国家采取积极措施控制和防治流感病毒?根据上下文可以判断出选项B(非洲)、C(南美洲)对于流行性感冒预防采取措施不利,选项D(欧洲国家)采取措施的情况文章未加评论,所以应选A。
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